caipitiúil
Irish
editEtymology
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Adjective
editcaipitiúil (genitive singular masculine caipitiúil, genitive singular feminine caipitiúla, plural caipitiúla, not comparable)
Declension
editDeclension of caipitiúil
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | caipitiúil | chaipitiúil | caipitiúla; chaipitiúla² | |
Vocative | chaipitiúil | caipitiúla | ||
Genitive | caipitiúla | caipitiúla | caipitiúil | |
Dative | caipitiúil; chaipitiúil¹ |
chaipitiúil | caipitiúla; chaipitiúla² | |
Comparative | (not comparable) | |||
Superlative | (not comparable) |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
caipitiúil | chaipitiúil | gcaipitiúil |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caipitiúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “caipitiúil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “caipitiúil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024